Turkish energy minister says Turkey may have to review its decision to give electricity to Syria

ANKARA (A.A) - Turkey's energy and natural resources minister said on Tuesday that Turkey might have to review its decision to give electricity to Syria. Taner Yildiz said Turkey was giving electricity to Syria right now. "However, we may have to review this decision if the current course continues in that country," Yildiz said as he received members of Turkish Industrialists' & Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) in Ankara. Yildiz said Turkey had halted joint oil exploration of Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) and Syrian oil company in six wells after relations had become tense with Syria.  The minister said Turkey would make a decision on electricity supply to Syria after the issue was notified to Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We have no change in our zero problem policy with our neighbors, however we cannot remain indifferent to misuse of this policy and the fact that this has been turned into a unilateral tension," he said. Yildiz also said Turkey could not tolerate anything that had turned into a crime against humanity. Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the Turkish Embassy in Damascus on Saturday after the Arab League voted to suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against the Syrian regime over its failure to end crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Pro-government demonstrators gathered outside the embassy in the evening as their numbers quickly reached to a thousand during the one-and-a-half-hour demonstration.  They chanted anti-Turkey slogans, hurled rocks and tried to force their way in through the main gate of the embassy compound. Turkey's Chief Consulate in Aleppo and the country's honorary consulate in Latakia were also attacked in simultaneous demonstrations.  Protestors managed to get into garden of the consulate and they tried to hoist down the Turkish flag as they threw rocks and smashed windows of the honorary consulate in Latakia. No embassy or consulate staff were hurt in the violent protests.